Accountancy and Empire The British Legacy of Professional Organization [Paperback]

This book brings together, for the first time, studies of the professionalisation of accountancy in key constituent territories of the British Empire. The late nineteenth century was a period of intensive activity in terms of both imperialism and professionalisation. A team of expert contributors has examined profession-state engagements between Britain, on the one hand and Canada, South Africa, Australia, Nigeria, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, India and Kenya, and the other with a view to assessing how the organizations of accountancy in the colonies was affecting the metropolitan profession and state agents- and vice versa. Their contributions highlight the peculiarities of the professionalization processes in variant social, economic and political environments linked together by the relays of empire, prompting reflection on both the common and disparate dynamics involved.

This book has numerous objectives, including giving historical insight and focus on countries that provide contrasting and variant examples of the uptake of the British model , and broadening the appeal of accounting history and professionalisation as a taught subject in university accounting departments.

1. Accountancy and Empire: Setting the Stage Suki Sian and Chris Poullaos  2. The Self-Governing Dominions of South Africa, Australia and Canada and the Evolution of the Imperial Accountancy Arena during the 1920s Chris Poullaos  3. Canada between Empires Alan J. Richardson  4. Colonial Heritage and the Accounting Profession in Nigeria Chibuike U. Uche  5. The Malaysian Accountancy Profession and its Imperial Legacy (1957-1995) Devi S. Susela  6.  The Imperial Roots of Accounting Closure: The Case of Sri LankaP.W. Senerath Yapa  7. Imperialism and Pl0